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As far as food is on the enemy, this trick is very familiar to the Dashun army.

Back then, the Dashun army was running around, only destroying but not producing, if it wasn't for the enemy's food, they would have all starved to death.

Now although Li Guo's 60,000 people have changed their banners and changed from the Dashun Army to the Qin Army's loyal battalion, this housekeeping skill is still there.

Ma Yongzhen received a strict order from the General Staff Headquarters, did not give Li Guo time to hesitate, gave him five days of food, replenished weapons, and then left the camp and went north on the second day.

Ma Yongzhen personally led 10,000 Qin troops to escort the battle, and a total of 70,000 troops went north out of Nanyang, connecting Poye County, Xiangcheng, Jiaxian, Ruzhou, and Song County.

The 70,000-strong army suddenly attacked, because it only brought a small amount of baggage, and the speed was very fast, and the Manchu general Daur, who was responsible for defending Luoyang, was overwhelmed, and he only had 1,000 Manchurian banner soldiers in his hands, and another 500 Han banner troops.

The green battalion soldiers defending the cities were extremely poor, and they had just been annexed to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and when they saw that the Qin army was strong, before Ma Yongzhen arrived, the green battalion soldiers in some states and counties had already gone out of the city to meet the surrender.

Seeing that the situation was serious, Daur sent people to Xinyang and Guanzhong to ask for help, while shrinking his troops, retreating to the Yique Pass in the south of Luoyang, Yique Pass is located between Longmen Mountain and Xiangshan in the south of Luoyang, two mountains and a river, the Guan River is locked, the situation is dangerous, it is the only way for Luoyang to go south and Jingxiang to the north.

Whether the 70,000 army can capture Luoyang depends on whether it can quickly capture Yique Pass.

***

In Guifeng Mountain, Macheng, Guo Yunlong and Hu Shouliang finally agreed to go down the mountain to accept the reorganization after Wu Jimin promised to exchange the Tartar captives for their families.

In fact, the 20,000 Guanning army had run out of food and grass, and they could only barely survive by killing some wounded war horses, and they couldn't support it for long.

It's just that Ma Yongzhen's Northern Front War has begun, and the prelude to the entire grand war has begun, and Qin Mu has no time to spend it with 20,000 Guanning troops, so he promised them to exchange prisoners for their families. prompted the rapid surrender of 20,000 horses.

As soon as the 20,000-strong army entered the mountain, Liu Meng and Wu Jimin immediately completely reorganized it, first broke them up, and then compiled them with the cavalry of Su Jin and Li Jiu.

At the same time as the reorganization of the Guanning Army, the General Staff ordered Tian Jianxiu to be the commander-in-chief, and the Red Lady He, Hong Dazhuang, and Liu Tichun were appointed as deputy generals. Zhao Han was the commander of the army, and led the leading period to reorganize the remaining 30,000 Li Zicheng, with two Hongyi cannons and eight thousand-pound Furang machine guns, preparing to recapture Wuyang Pass, and then threaten Xinyang.

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It is located on the north bank of the Huai River, with the remaining veins of Tongbai and Funiu Mountains in the west, and the Huanghuai Plain in the east. It is one hundred and fifty miles away from Xinyang in the south, and it is the only way for Zhengzhou to go south to Xinyang.

Dongfang Sheng, deputy director of the Military Intelligence Department, divided the 460 people into zero, set out from Funiu Mountain, and rushed for 200 miles in two days and nights. After reaching the mountain, he hid down.

The night has been two watches, there are no stars and no moon in the sky, and it is dark in the four fields, but fortunately, Dongfang Sheng's men and horses have been drinking pine needle water for a long time. Overcome night blindness, otherwise on such a night, it would be impossible to move at all.

Dongfang Sheng and Gan Nan of the Ministry of Supervision accepted Qin Mu's arrangement. led 200 people to disperse to Henan, Shandong, Beizhili and other places to organize operations behind enemy lines, and it has been more than a year in a blink of an eye;

When they came, Li Zicheng also occupied Henan and Shandong, and then the Qing army came, the Central Plains was in chaos, Dongfang Sheng took the opportunity to gather some of the scattered Dashun army and Ming soldiers, and took these people up the mountains and grass;

It's not too much to say that it's falling grass, and now they, in addition to being able to get in touch with Ye Buhui, can't get any support from the rear, and it's no different from the grass Kou who occupies the mountain as the king.

However, it was they who, taking advantage of the southward shift of the Manchu military center of gravity, gathered and scattered in Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, and Beizhili, and launched a vigorous guerrilla war, which made Dolgon very troubled.

Tonight, after careful planning, Dongfang Sheng decided to give Tartar a big show of burning the company camp.

When the third watch arrived, Dongfang Sheng touched the pigtail on his head, spat at the mouthful, and ordered four hundred and sixty people to come out in the dark, and rushed straight to the county seat of Chengshan a few miles away.

Shortly after the third watch, Dai Long, a Manchu general who was sleeping soundly in the county town of Queshan County, was suddenly awakened by the sound of a violent explosion, and then a personal soldier rushed in and reported that the east, south, and west gates had been attacked by troops of unknown origin.

Dai Long was shocked, he escorted 60,000 stones, grain and grass at dusk just arrived in Queshan County, and Queshan was attacked in the middle of the night, which shows that the other party must have premeditated, and the other party dared to attack the county town of Quishan guarded by 3,000 men and horses, indicating that the strength must not be weak.

The enemy situation is unknown, the other party still uses the siege tactics of encircling three queyi, Dai Long did not dare to take it lightly, and hurriedly transferred troops to defend the east, south and west three city gates, and he also went to the south gate to observe the enemy situation.

"Quick, go to the north gate! The enemy is going to attack the north gate! ”

Dai Long was not slow to react, but in his roar, an earth-shattering explosion had been heard from the north gate, and the county town was not big, and from the south gate, you could see a huge fireball rising from the north gate, and you could feel the city trembling.

"The North Gate was blown open, the North Gate was blown open"

The Qing army at the head of the city shouted in panic, in this dark night, there was no way to figure out how many enemies there were, as soon as the city gate was blown open, everyone's mental defense seemed to be blown up at the same time, because usually in this case, the tide of enemies would then come in from the north gate.

Dongfang Shengqin led 300 men and horses to attack from the weakest defense of the north gate, shouting like a tide, and the flames were everywhere, at this time, it was even more difficult for the Qing army to judge how many enemies there were.

The situation was urgent, Dai Long didn't have time to think about it, and immediately organized men and horses to meet the north gate, and Dongfang Sheng launched a fierce street battle in the north gate, after all, the Qing army was numerous, and gradually stabilized the situation, Dai Long personally charged ahead, ready to drive the enemy out of the north gate.

However, at this moment, the grain and grass in the city were suddenly ignited, the smoke billowed up, and the fire quickly reflected the night sky.

Looking at the sky-high firelight, Dai Long attacked the city angrily, his eyes were about to split, that was a full 60,000 stones of grain and grass, if all of them were burned, what would the tens of thousands of troops in Xinyang eat?

Dai Long had to send people back to fight the fire, and the advantage he had just gained was lost, taking advantage of the confusion of the Tartar army, Dongfang Sheng took the lead and led the counterattack back again.

The tens of thousands of people who were responsible for transporting grain and grass became a pile of straw for Zuihou who crushed Dailong; As soon as the grain and grass caught fire, some people stirred up among tens of thousands of people: "Everyone run, the grain and grass are burned, and the Tartars will not let us go, run!" The Tartars are back, the grain and grass are gone, and if you don't run, everyone will die, run! ”

The city was full of fires and killings, and tens of thousands of people were already panicked, but when they were agitated again, they immediately ran away like headless flies;

Dai Long rushed back with more than 1,000 horses to prepare to put out the fire, and was rushed by tens of thousands of people, first those green battalion soldiers followed the people to run around, and Dai Long took only more than 100 Manmeng banner soldiers to slash and kill;

But in this chaotic night, there were more and more places where the fire broke out, and the fleeing people became denser and denser, and finally the more than 100 banner soldiers of Dailong were also washed away by tens of thousands of people.

On this night, the entire county town of Queshan was destroyed in a fire, the 60,000 stones of grain and grass escorted here by Dai Long turned into a pile of ashes, more than 2,000 green battalion soldiers were all scattered, and more than 100 Manmeng banner soldiers were leveled among tens of thousands of people and people in the city, and they were in chaos, and as many as half of them died from trampling on each other.

After Dongfang Sheng succeeded, he quickly broke into pieces and disappeared outside the city of Queshan, and Dai Long did not know where he was attacked by the enemy from where he came.

***

The stone pillar is located in the east of Chongqing Prefecture, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and belongs to the middle mountain area of Wushan Dalou Mountain. The terrain in the territory is high in the east and low in the west, showing undulations and declines. The mountains are continuous, the mountains are stacked, the peaks and dams are staggered, and the ravines are vertical and horizontal.

After the defeat of Kuizhou, Qin Liangyu was rescued by his nephew Qin Yiming and others to return to the stone pillar, Zhang Xianzhong fell into Shu, sent people to recruit the Tusi of Shu, but did not dare to persuade the stone pillar to surrender.

In the entire Shu land, the stone pillar toast can survive alone.

Wang Huanran was ordered to send an envoy to Shu with fifty people, and on the way back, he made a special detour to the stone pillar, and Qin Liangyu heard that Qin Mu, the governor of Huguang, sent an envoy, and ordered his nephew Qin Yiming and grandson Ma Wannian to greet him in person.

Facing Qin Liangyu, who has fought all his life and is now seventy years old, with white hair on his sideburns, Wang Huanran fell to the ground and made three bows in a solemn and heavy manner.

Qin Yiming and Ma Wannian, who were present, were all surprised, that is, although Qin Liangyu was silent on the surface, she was also very surprised in her heart, she said slowly: "Why do you need to do this big gift, the old body really can't afford it, Lord Wang, please get up quickly." ”

Qin Liangyu coughed lightly twice as he spoke, the heroine who was once dominant, after all, was no match for the wear and tear of the years, and she was already so old.

Wang Huanran ignored the dissuasion, and after the three bows were completed, he got up and said respectfully: "Old lady, I was sent by Qin Muqin, the governor of Huguang, to come to the stone pillar to meet the old lady, this great gift is for our Governor Qin, our Governor Qin is a side branch of the Qin clan in Zhongzhou, and it belongs to the literary generation, old lady, please take a look." ”

Wang Huanran carefully handed over a family tree, which was the genealogy that Qin Mu had asked Huang Lianshan to find from his old house in Nanjing after being reminded by Yang Zhi, Qin Liangyu took it and handed it to his nephew Qin Yiming, and sighed: "The old man's eyes are not good, Yiming, come and see." ”

"Yes, auntie." Qin Yiming is in his forties, with a medium body, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and there is a killing aura between his actions, but in front of Qin Liangyu, he is extremely respectful;

He took the genealogy and read it carefully and said: "Aunt, according to this genealogy record, the Governor of Qin is indeed from the side branch of my Qin family, and he moved to Qinhuai from the end of the Yuan Dynasty to the eighth year of Zheng, and it has been eleven generations so far.

"Qin Mu is actually the queen of my Zhongzhou Qin clan," Qin Liangyu muttered to himself with a cane.

(To be continued......)